Marjory Mecklenburg

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Marjory E. Malo Mecklenburg (born 1935) is an American government administrator. She has served as an advisor for the Office of Technology Assessment and was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, serving in the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs and serving as Director of the Office of Population Affairs until 1985.

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She and her husband Fred Mecklenburg are prominent activists in opposition to legal abortion. She is a founder of the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, American Citizens Concerned for Life, and has served as a leader of the National Right to Life Committee.

Life and career

Marjory Malo grew up in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, and she and her future husband were high school debating partners before marriage. [1] She and her husband have four children, one of whom is Karl Mecklenburg, a former American football player for the Denver Broncos. [2]

Mecklenburg was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She had previously served on an advisory panel for the Office of Technology Assessment investigating fertility planning technologies. [3] Mecklenburg's tenure at the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs focused on issues related to teenage pregnancy, where she specifically proposed Reagan administration policies requiring parental consent for minors seeking birth control. [4]

She later became Director of the Office of Population Affairs. [5] [6] While there she came under scrutiny for using government funds to travel to see her son’s Denver Bronco games. She resigned in 1985. [7] [8]

Opposition to abortion

Mecklenburg and her husband became involved in the opposition to legal abortion in 1967. [9] Mecklenburg served as president of the pro-life organization Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, succeeding her husband in that position.

In the 1980s, Marjory Mecklenburg served as president of the National Right to Life Committee. [10] [11]

Selected publications and media

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  1. ↑ Thibodeau, Lynn (1977). The Happy Housewife. Carillon Books, ISBN   9780893100506
  2. ↑ (17 December 1994). Meacj eager to tackle life after football. Broncos great moving on after 12 seasons of proving 'slow white kid' could star in NFL., Rocky Mountain News
  3. ↑ United States Office of Technology Assessment (1981). World population and fertility planning technologies : the next 20 years. DIANE, ISBN   9781428924338
  4. ↑ Blinkhorn, Lois (October 4, 1982). Using Federal clout to fight teenage sex. Milwaukee Journal
  5. ↑ Glaser, Vera (8 August 1981). Teen-Age Pregnancy: Reagan Health Aide Says Teens Should Learn to Say No, Evening Independent
  6. ↑ Anderson, Jack and Joseph Spear (26 August 1987). U.S. paid for mom's trips, Ellensburg Daily Record
  7. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers | Anderson, Jack and Joseph Spear (26 August 1987). U.S. paid for mom's trips, Ellensburg Daily Record |
  8. ↑ "Resignation of Population Official Ends Expense Account Probe".
  9. ↑ (May 16, 1993). Driven to extremes. St. Paul Pioneer Press
  10. ↑ Townsend, Tim (August 21, 2012). "Akin appears to have picked up conclusions from 1972 article now hotly disputed". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
  11. ↑ Associated Press (February 27, 1985). Resignation of Population Official Ends Expense Account Probe.
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